ray — OET · Shobdo

ray

noun

1 misty rays of light shone through the trees:

beam, shaft, streak, bar, pencil, finger, stream, gleam, flash, glint, glimmer, flicker, twinkle, shimmer.

2 there was just one small ray of hope:

glimmer, flicker, spark, glint, trace, hint, indication, suggestion, sign, scintilla, whisper.

verb

Fran leaned forward, her fair hair raying out in the water:

spread out, fan out, radiate out.

ray (1) Oxford Dictionary of English